Prljavo Kazaliste (Dirty Theater) was one of the first Croatian original punk-rock bands, together with Azra and Paraf. Probably the first that got an album out. When I was 13, there was not that many options in Croatia: I could choose between Srebrna Krila (an equivalent of N'Sync) and Prljavo Kazaliste. I remember wearing their button on my jacket for about a year (until me and my friends started our own punk band and started wearing our own buttons). Ok, they migrated from old school mellodic punk of their first album very soon to pecuniary more satisfying styles. By the 1990's they were all too mellow for me, lead singer left, so Jasenko Houra (guitarist and song writer) started singing himself. Not bad, but never again the same. Than he made a song about his mom, calling her Ruza Hrvatska (Croatian Rose). That at time when such use of adjective Croatian in a pop song was viewed as highly provocative. You could hear it only in banned songs anyway. In the original recorded lyrics word "Croatian" appears exactly ONE time (at live performances it was repeated ad nauseam, of course). Provocation worked marvels for the sagging sales. Also, it showed Houra's brilliant marketing prowess - as the Yugoslav market disappeared destroying livelihood of many Zagreb, Sarajevo, and Belgrade rock bands, he made a song that would profile him as a patriot, and help him sell his records in the years to come.